Tag Archives: Trapped

October 16, 2018Comments Off on Trapped in information bubbles? Consequences of the media’s polarized Trump coverage (VIDEO)

Shrill media reports about Donald Trump’s alleged praise of Confederate General Robert E. Lee underscore the president’s deep-rooted racism, or America’s fake news epidemic – depending on where you get your news from. The recent soundbite controversy began after NBC claimed that Trump had heaped praise upon Lee during a speech – sparking an avalanche of indignation from liberal outlets. ...

September 5, 2018Comments Off on Buildings collapse, people trapped after 6.7 quake triggers landslide in Japan

Published time: 5 Sep, 2018 21:40 Edited time: 5 Sep, 2018 21:56 A large-scale rescue operation is underway on the Japanese island of Hokkaido after a powerful 6.7 earthquake triggered a massive landslide that swallowed a number of houses, reportedly trapping people inside. The rural town of Atsumi has been partially devastated after a chunk of a mountain ridge slid ...

August 2, 2018Comments Off on Bear rips car to shreds after becoming trapped inside (VIDEO)

A Colorado family may need a new car after a bear became trapped inside and left an unbelievable path of destruction in its wake. The bear found itself trapped inside a Subaru in Conifer, Colorado on Monday. The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office released a video showing the bear being released – and documenting the utter carnage it left behind. “We’ve ...

July 12, 2018Comments Off on Burglar’s escape room blunder: Trapped thief asks cops to rescue him

Could an escape room get a better endorsement than being so puzzling that a burglar couldn’t find a way out? A hapless thief in Washington was so perplexed by the adventure game he broke into that he called the police on himself. The live action games, which sees people trapped in a room that they must escape from as quickly ...

Twelve boys who have been trapped inside a Thai cave for over two weeks have written a series of heartbreaking notes to their families. Some asked for fried chicken, while others simply told their parents that they loved them. The letters, handwritten in blue pen and pencil on pieces of paper, were released by the Thai Navy SEALs on Facebook ...

July 6, 2018Comments Off on Ex-Navy Seal dies on mission to deliver oxygen to Thai football team trapped in cave (LIVE)

The large-scale rescue effort to rescue a junior football team and their coach from a cave complex has claimed its first victim, a former Marine who died from lack of oxygen after bringing much-needed gas supplies to the group. The 38-year old rescuer was identified as former Thai Navy Seal Saman Kunan. The authorities have said he had volunteered to ...

July 2, 2018Comments Off on Football team missing for 9 days found trapped in a flooded cave in Thailand (VIDEO)

As the FIFA World Cup yielded many apparent divine interventions, a real-world miracle has happened in Thailand, when all players in a children’s squad and their coach, who had spent nine days in a flooded cave, were found alive. The sudden and almost traceless disappearance of the Wild Boar football team in northern Thailand on June 23 had kept the ...

Prospects looked bleak for a foal who somehow managed to get sandwiched between a series of boulders, with its head in a crevice and its legs strewn in the air. But it’s remarkable rescue has been captured on video. The bizarre incident took place near the city of Aktau in southwestern Kazakhstan, and footage of the daring rescue was published ...

March 26, 2018Comments Off on ‘Tell mom I loved her’: Distraught children were among scores trapped inside burning Kemerovo mall

The shopping-mall blaze in Russia’s Kemerovo that killed more than 60 people was one of the deadliest fires in the past century. Children were among those trapped inside, leaving moving messages for loved ones. The tragedy shook Russia’s western Siberian city of Kemerovo on Sunday, just before the beginning of school holidays. The fire started on the top floor of ...

February 14, 2018Comments Off on Stunning photo captures single atom trapped in magnetic field

An incredible award-winning photo reveals what a lone atom trapped in a magnetic field would look like to the naked eye. ‘Single Atom in an Ion Trap’ was taken by David Nadlinger, from the University of Oxford through a window of a ultra-high vacuum chamber that houses the ion trap. The striking image was awarded the overall prize in a ...